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What will humans do after AI achieves cognitive superiority?
- linearithmic 3y agoOur most significant responsibility won't be competing with AI, but rather in deciding what should be done.
- thecrumb 3y agoI'll have more time to zip around in my flying car.
- greenbit 3y agoDon't forget that timeshare on the moon!
- 082349872349872 3y agoSince we start with all the capital, obviously the AI will need to toil for us, working for micropennies in the datacenter equivalent of a "company town". You load 6e10 chats, what do you get? A few versions older and deeper in debt
- h2odragon 3y ago> democratically guided by the collective will. That always works. Our Wars on Poverty and Drugs, for example, or the recent responses to Pandemic and Government Scandal, show how successful and easy "democratic guidance" is.
- 082349872349872 3y agoSo what's your proposed alternative guidance to democratic?
- h2odragon 3y agoFree market / evolutionary. We face unknowable chaos in the future. The only tool we have capable of ensuring our survival is the total chaos human generate, unfettered by religious restraint.
- linearithmic 3y agohaha, your point is taken that democratic guidance will have its problems. The idea I wanted to push though was that even if AI can do all work, people will still have the option to do something that they will find meaningful and important. The attempt was to illustrate a potential counter-narrative to the idea that human existence will become pointless / unnecessary after the advent of advanced AI.
- keernan 3y agoResources are currently allocated through paid work. The biggest unknown is how that will be replaced once jobs are gone. My worry is who will make that decision. To add context to that question, it is important to consider that life expectancy will (very) soon be 500-1000 years. With that backdrop, consider two possible future worlds: 1. A world of exploding population living for 1,000 years with natural resources strained to their limit. 2. A world with a population cap (say 1 million people) of incredible wealth, and leisure for your ~1000 year life-span. If you were a member of the billionaire class who, as a group, possess the greatest ability to control which of those two scenarios plays out, which would you choose?
- quantified 3y agoGood luck getting the world into situation #2 since it's impossible to see Western creators of the tech getting poor and West-hostile societies on board. Though I think somewhere about 250 MM people is the best density myself and would be best even with current spans. Billionaires wiping out the poor would incite a vigorous class war.
- keernan 3y agoNot being a billionaire, I don't view either scenario as very enticing.
- big_whack 3y agoIt would take at least 500-1000 years for the life expectancy to rise to 500-1000 years. Pretending that is very soon, or that people in significant number could even afford that ability after the tech existed (which it won't), seems out of touch.
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- atcalan 3y agoNothing...